as the years go flyin' by

my friend erin, who worked with me in austin for a year at my first job out of college, had a party on friday at her house called cringe night. you were supposed to bring an embarrassing tidbit from your childhood. erin is tons of fun and loves attention, so this party was right up her alley. she began by reading several entries from her diary from when she was 7, 9 and 12 (or so). i remember two lines vividly:

"my cousin is so beautiful. she has long, brown hair. she is a woman."

"i feel like i am jealous of everyone, but no one is jealous of ME."

..so everyone was in pieces laughing at erin's performance, but then when she finished, no one wanted to go next. we decided to spin a bottle. naturally, it landed on me. i had come prepared with my diary from high school, but i passed. of the 20 people at the party, i knew 2 well and had met 2 others a couple of times, and i just plain didn't have enough courage at the moment to be the second to go. so we spun again and it landed on the girl beside me, who read notes her first boyfriend had written her when she was 15 about how much he loved her, especially in her cheerleading uniform. 

thenn we spun it a third time and it landed on me again! so i just gave in and read. mercifully, they laughed at my entry about how i was "kind of like a typical cheerleader, but i'm not one" and how i had a "princess bed, which goes perfectly with my personality." 

it was a hilarious night and a really fun idea for a party.